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This Is Why Your Facebook Feed Is Overrun With Giraffes

Been noticing a large number of nature's tallest mammal in your Facebook feed?

No, there's not a post-government shutdown surge of zoo visits and your friends didn't go on a group safari trip without inviting you — It's just Facebook's newest meme/annoying prank (depending on your state of mind).

The viral trend involves asking your Facebook friends a riddle. People who choose to play send the riddler a message with their guess. If they guess incorrectly, they must change their profile picture to one of everyone's favorite long-necked animal.

Here's the riddle:

3:00 am, the doorbell rings and you wake up. Unexpected visitors. It's your parents and they are there for breakfast. You have strawberry jam, honey, wine, bread and cheese. What is the first thing you open?

No answer yet on why the giraffe is the symbol of the joke, or who is responsible for creating the trend. But we'd rather be stuck in a social network sea of cute giraffes than the usual Facebook scam or fake viral picture.

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